Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-11-17
DAILY HERALD.


klOmA l~G8A INV
Simon Cameron announces, at the
age of So years, that he proposes TO
make q European tour every two or
three years to watch the progress OF
civilization. An old man OF such
spunk is worth dozen OF half his
years.
Marshal John Jolly, Of Butte City,
Mont. is the owner of the most Elk.
pensive policeman star in the United
States. 1t is Of solid gold and has tive
points; at the end OF each point is a
diamond and in the center is a mono
gram of gems. The whole is valued
ct $500.
Glassblowers' cheeks become thin
and lose their elasticity by the contin-
ned blowing. They hang down Ike
inverted pockets and grow useless. 1t
il matter of record, 1t is SAID, that
both here and in Europe glassworkers
have blown holes through their
cheeks.
A Philadelphia bride received up
ward of 200 presents, but there was
NOT a single piece OF silver in the lot.
Everybody used to send plate for we'd
ding presents, but now the rage is ior
cut glass and bric-a-brac, ana tne
Philadelphia lady has more OF this
than she can find houseroom for.
The Pitcairn Islanders, the descend
ants of British mutineers, still live
happily and are prosperous. A ship
wrecked man from the United States
has married one of the natives. The
islanders still keep the old Bounty
names-Young, McAvoy and CHRIS,
tian-and want little except nails and
fish hooks.
Newport is becoming more and more
. place for the very wealthy. People
with incomes of $4,000 to $25, 900 a
wear can no longer make show there
and participate in fashionable gayety.
An income Of $4,000 even does not
enable one to meet the exactlng de-
mands of the American Vanity Fair.
A man clad in nothing but shirt
walked up to the ticket office on the
platform of a station in Dublin, and
applied for a ticket. He had delirium
tremens, and had gone into the wait
inp-room, taken off his clothes and
left them there. He was dressed and
arrested, and fined five shillings and
costs at the police court.
A telegraph operator in Jackson
vile, Fla, has been summoned before
a committee of citizens to explain
why he told woman operator at
Tallahassee that there were $50 cases
of yellow fever in Jacksonville, and
the committee has recommended that
his resignation be accepted, and that
any pay due him for services be with
held.
The Duke and Duchess of Edin.
burgh are described by the Trieste
people as being the most parsimon.
ious royalties that have ever visited
that port. and the Austrian papers are
filed with anecdotes of their mean.
ness. At the Art Exhibition, the
royal pair, after being conducted
round by the officials, expended 81. 80
About as mean man as often comes
to light is the New York undertaken
who took advantage of a poor woman
last week. Her child died and the
undertaken agreed to bury it in Cal.
vary cemetery for $12, and charged
her $3.50 for a burial permit. She
was too poor even to go to the GENE.
terry with her little ones coffin, and
she learned day or two later that the
undertaken had buried the child il
the Potter's field, and that burial per
mits are issued free by the city. She
will sue the undertaken, and it is to be
hoped that he will be made to smart
for his meanness.
The only unpleasant incident which
occurred at Asheville, N. c., was the
defacing in small way of the Presi-
dents private car. Mr.. - was ar
rested and taken before Esquire A. T.
Summey upon the charge of defacing
and damaging the Presidents car.
He pleaded guilty and further stated
that he did not intend to violate the
law or to offer insult or injury to the
President; said he came from South
Carolina specially to see him, that he
was Democrat, and that his father
was as good a Democrat as lived in
Spartanburg county, and having failed
to get good look at the President, he
wanted chip off his car to remember
him by. The judgment of the court
was in these words: SIT is adjudged
by the court that the defendant pay a
fine of S. in order that he may more
feelingly and tenderly remember the
President and his beautiful wife, and
at the same time aid the school fund
of Buncombe county,"